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American Beauty

American Beauty

The character that caught my attention in the film American Beauty, was Lester Bernim.

Lester was a man and father who was living an unhappy life. He wakes up everyday with the

same boring routine. He was unhappily married and was living a lie with a with in which they

both knew that their sexual life was completely over. His wife Carolyn, only cared about her

real estate job, and money and fame was the most important thing to her. They were basically

staying married for her job, to present themselves as the ideal family to the public, when in

reality the family was far from normal.

Lester works at an advertising phone company in which he truly hates his job. He hates

his boss, his co-workers, basically everyone; but he just keeps it all in. He has no love life, and

is pretty miserable. This all changes the day he attends his daughters school function and

becomes attracted with one of her friends. His views on life completely turn around after seeing

her. He realizes that moping around and being depressed was getting him nowhere. He meets

their neighbor, Ricky Fitz, where they engage in smoking pot together. Ricky quits his job to

smoke pot, and Lester realizes how easy life would be if he did whatever he wanted to do.

Lester now lives his life to the fullest. He works out daily, quits his boring job, and now has the

nerves to stand up to his annoying wife. He wasn't going to let anyone get in his way. He was a

completely changed man. He was now having fun, enjoying life, and living every moment of it.

His life couldn't be any more perfect, he had everything he wanted and more. But his perfect

life was cut short the day he got...

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